Improvement in hat and coat hooks



' NITED STATES JOHN BANNER, 0F CANTON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAT AND coAT Hooks.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BANNER, of Canton, in the county of Stark andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hatand Coat Racks; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact de Vthe rack-bars or frame with the hook in full inserted therein.

I am aware that-wooden pins have been used in expansible and swinginghatand coat racks 5 but such pins afford but one-half of the capacity ofthe metal hooks, and are neither as cheap nor ornamental as the metallichooks; nor are they as durable.

My invention consists in combining, with the bars or frame of a swingingor swaying hat or coat rack, metallic hooks or brackets, portions of theshanks of which are plain and portions screw-threaded, so that one setof bars may always remain relatively in the same position and the otherset be movable, and both held to each other by said shanks, and so thatthe books or brackets in any of the positions of the rack shall alwaysbe in an upright position.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing. The hooks orbrackets A are made of cast metal, and in any ornamented style. Upon thehooks or brackets are cast, respectively, a shank, one portion, a, ofwhich is plain and round and the other portion, 1), screw-threaded, andwhich threads may be cast upon the shank when the hook or bracket iscast. The hooks have two curved points or projections, c d, upon whichhats or coats may be hung.

Two sets of slats or bars, B and 0, are used to form a rack-frame, ofwhich those B which are next to the wall always remain horizontal andparallel to each other, while those 0 remain parallel to each other, butcan be swung or swayed to the right or left so as to give the frame adiamond or rhomboidal form.

The putting together of the hooks and slats or bars to form a hat orcoat rack may be done by any one, however unskillful, as the hooks haveupon them and carry with them the devices by which they are united tothe slats or bars, and by which one set of the barsviz., those Gmayswing or sway upon said hooks, and yet be held to the other set, B; or,in other words, no other fastening or device other than the hooksthemselves is required to unite the cross-bars into a swinging frame.Holes are bored through the slats or bars where they cross each other,those through the slats 0 being somewhat larger than those through theslats B. T he shank of the hook is passed through the hole in the slat Gand screwed into the hole in the slat B until the shoulder 6 brings upagainst (or nearly so) the slat O, which allows the slat G to freelyswing on the plain portion a of the shank,'while the slat B is heldpermanently by the screw portion b.

When the frame is thus united by a series of hooks it may be hung upagainst a wall by the dead-eyes or rings f, and then, by swing ing orswaying the hooks and the bars to the right or left and securing it by apin, nail, or screw, the tiers of hooks will be in such oblique line asto admit of hanging clothes or hats upon any or all of them. The hooksbeing fast in the slats B and these slats always being horizontalwherever they are moved to, the hooks always maintain an uprightposition. Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim is- Aseries of metallic hooks,.having shanks partially plain and partiallyscrew-threaded, and combined and united with two sets of slats or bars,B O, as and for thepurpose described and represented.

1 JOHN DANNER.

Witnesses:

J NO. F. RAYNoLns, JOHN F. CLARK.

